this might be a little off-topic, but I don't know where else to ask

i saw a video simulating the real time unfolding of the chernobyl disaster and it blew my mind how much the engineers ignored every warning and security measure possible

(yt link for those interested: https://youtu.be/WMr3-ShzB08)

why would they do this? i'm not a nuclear engineer, but i'd much rather risk my job, my career and leave millions of people without electricity than push the safety thresholds even by the tiniest bit. trying to look for explanations online leads to liberal, anticommunist bullshit like "russian incompetence" or "they wouldn't dare question the generals" or whatever. i want an actual, technical (and social) explanation without any liberal bias, which is why i'm asking it here

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 days ago

    Another interesting note about Fukushima: in some other prefectures the NPP sites were designated safe spaces for people evacuated from their homes in preparation for the tsunamis, including NPP sites on the pacific coast just like Fukushima.

    I also despise how Fukushima was used as the final excuse for Germany to ban nuclear power, as if Germany is at any risk for a tsunami (although they are of course at risk from corporate incompetence).

    • Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
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      17 days ago

      Germany's coal lobby screwed them so hard. Germany's fossil fuel lobby also promised to replace nuclear with a 'hydrogen economy' that still doesn't exist, and won't exist for at least the next decade.

      Now Germany's about to run out of electricity.

        • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 days ago

          For as bad as things are with regards to energy in Germany right now, they'll have to get a whole lot worse before people are ready to accept nuclear again. Germans are absolutely terrified of nuclear power, apparently more so than losing all of their energy intensive industry.